How to insert HTML entities with createTextNode?

Question

If I want to add an ascii symbol form js to a node somewhere? Tried as a TextNode, but it didn\'t parse it as a code:

var dropdownTriggerText =          


        

Answer 1

I couldn't find an automated way to do this. So I made a function.

// render HTML as text for inserting into text nodes
function renderHTML(txt) {
  var tmpDiv = document.createElement("div"); tmpDiv.innerHTML = txt;
  return tmpDiv.innerText || tmpDiv.textContent || txt;
}